Welcome to Global Citizens English! This is a place where you'll be able to share ideas with your friends, take part in enrichment activities, review class materials, participate in online challenges, and publish your own work.

This course is deigned for Third Grade students to utilize during Writers' Workshop. It provides links to websites used for research, appropriate kid search engines, clipart for students, and various links to aid in the witing process. Students may upload written work to share and discuss in forums.

This is the Moodle site for students involved in the infectious disease independent study groups. I've created a forum for you to discuss your research and responses to your reading with other students working on the independent study in different classes. Use this forum to discuss your research, share your ideas on the independent study, and compare notes on how things are going.

The SMS Writers' Club Moodle Site is a place where you can find your voice and share your ideas. Feel free to post ideas about writing, excerpts from your writer's notebook, and works in progress.

If you're working on a piece and want to get feedback from other writers, post a quick description of your piece, along with any specific requests for help (ideas for conclusion, places to improve word choice, etc.). Then upload the piece of writing as a Word file (Mrs. Messner will show you how) so that others can read it and leave you feedback.

After reading Atlas of the World, we will examine the different kinds of maps we have: physical, political, population and land use/economies. We will look at an article on global warming and create some suggestions for concerned citizens.

This course is to help us understand the evolution of communication. The course will cover a period of 5 weeks. It will begin with a survey asking participants how they like to communicate. Then we will explore the various inventions of the mail system, the telegraph, the telephone, computers, and cell phones and their impact on the general public. Participants will be assigned readings, research options, will be asked to interpret pictures, and will participate in weekly forums to discuss the weekly topic.The activities will end with quiz to assess what has been learned through the use of technology.

Would you like to bring a little music into your classroom? This course will help you add a little rhythm to your student's days by showing you ways to incorporate music into your already existing curriculm.

In this course, the students will work independently and at their own pace on Spanish Intermediate Level 1 (HIGH SCHOOL). The course is set up into weeks. Each week, activities will be posted for students to complete: readings and responses, opinion questions and responses, structure review, responding to other students. Every Monday after, there will be a quiz on the work from the previous weeks. At the end of the course, there will be a comprehensive exam.

Reading Across the Curriculum will focus on student literacy and content area reading comprehension. This workshop will be presented through Moodle online course management software and will utilize two texts: The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers by Nancie Atwell. ($13.59 at Amazon) Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading by Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman. ($24.92 at Amazon) This is a free, two-credit inservice opportunity offered through the Plattsburgh City School District. (Participants are responsible only for the cost of required texts.)

A professional development opportunity designed to study the comprehensive role poverty plays in our student's achievement, family systems, and community. Participants will engage in a book study to better understand the skills needed to reach students from impoverished backgrounds.

This "course" was suggested by people participating in an online DI workshop. Their request: a place where we can all keep sharing ideas and websites after this workshop ends. So now it's a place for all PCSD faculty and staff to share thoughts on teaching and learning. Here are some situations where you might use this forum:

-You want to share a great website or online tool.
-You want to recommend a book/resource to colleagues.
-You're looking for ideas/resources for a particular lesson.
-You'd like to get feedback/suggestions on a lesson or unit.
-You'd like to share a lesson/strategy/handout with others who might find it useful.
-Other positive uses related to teaching and learning.

Remember that all posts to this forum are public - viewable by anyone in the school district who chooses to participate.